47: Elm 0.19

Javascript to Elm

It’s Here, the release of Elm 0.19

Elm-Conf is soon!!!! Come join me

Quick Hits

• function-level dead code elimination

  • Across the entire ecosystem
• faster compile times, by a lot
• Nicer Parse Errors
• Better Docs on types, interop, and SPA

• packages

  • elm/time
  • elm/url
  • elm/json
  • elm/browser
  • Html.beginner becomes Browser.element and Browser.document
• Single elm binary so elm-make is now just elm make
• Other renaming elm-package.json is now just elm.json
• Encode and Decode are now under elm/json
• all elm-lang are now just elm/*
• Removed User-Defined Operators
• Perf for collections on foldr which is gonna be List, Array, Dic, and Set
• getViewport

• The build up

  • You can see the outline of that learning path in the Browser module. It lets you create Elm programs with the following functions:
  • sandbox — react to user input, like buttons and checkboxes
  • element — talk to the outside world, like HTTP and JS interop
  • document — control the and
  • application — create single-page apps
• It’s really really small!!!

• elm-core is 1.0

  "elm/browser": "1.0.0", "elm/core": "1.0.0", "elm/html": "1.0.0", "elm/http": "1.0.0", "elm/json": "1.0.0", "elm/svg": "1.0.0", "elm/url": "1.0.0", "elm-explorations/markdown": "1.0.0" }, "indirect": { "elm/time": "1.0.0", "elm/virtual-dom": "1.0.0"
  • That leads to the question, is Elm 1.0. The short answer is no.

Picks

• All the contributors to Elm that worked hard for these improvements

• Elm-Conf, bc I can’t wait to go!

Resources

• Elm Blog
• 019 Better collections
• GetViewPort
• Elm Browser
• Hacker News Clone PWA

Follow

• JavaScript to Elm

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• Jesse Tomchak

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